Biography

The Institut la Guineueta is in the north-east of Barcelona in the Nou Barris district, where Canyelles, Verdum and La Guineueta meet. These neighbourhoods took shape in the 1960s and 70s, when people who had mostly migrated from various parts of Spain made their homes here. The area suffered from the same infrastructural problems and lack of services as the other neighbourhoods built in Barcelona during the Franco years. The local residents had to fight to get amenities, services, etc. One of the milestones was the development of La Guineu gully, which was transformed in 1971 into La Guineueta Park. A new wave of immigrants in recent years, many of them from Latin America, has partly altered the appearance of the area. The Institut la Guineueta is a large and diverse centre that provides compulsory secondary education, sixth-form education and professional and vocational training. 

Presentation written in 2018